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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Alan Bennett

Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Book Commonwealth Equal Herself Literature Read Reader Republic
I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Argument Coherent Fallible Good Incoherent Mouth People Play Precise Suit
So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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Dozen Eventually Experience Extent Half History Own Try
You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Book Conviction Corroborate Have
You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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Always Anything Apart Arrive By Car Cycle Go Good Know Mood Prefer
Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Country More Pass Time Want Wish
We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
ALAN BENNETT

Chip Fetch Fish Market Place Settle Shop
Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Done Kindness Nor Read Seem Think Write
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
ALAN BENNETT

Age Belong Breakfast Catch Father Husband Novelist Poet
One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Duty Pleasure Public Raed
It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Been Cambridge Grail Holy never Sense
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Appear Indifference Literature Read Something Through Underfy
My films are about embarrassment.
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Embarrassment Film
I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
ALAN BENNETT

Just Need Rich Walk
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Do Leisure Mean Nothing Purpose Some
The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Done Go Next Once Start Think

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